The Essex garland, in four parts. 1. How a young esquire in Essex lost the love of his parents by marrying a coblers daughter; how as length he was forced to go to see. 2. How in his absence his wife had no children at a birth, which babes was bereaved from her by his father, who threatened to put them to nurse, and gave his man ten pounds to murder them, who instead of destroying them, in the night carried them late to their own mother, for which at length be had a hundred pound's for his reward. 3. Because she could not come too often to see her babes; they ... slave, and had gone to Virginia, had not her husband met her by the way, and brought her come again. 4. How he went to his father to demand his babes, threatening to take him up for murther, at which his father .. when he came to himself confessed it, and gave him six thousands pounds to conceal the murder, and the manner how he made a feast for his parents and having dined, for a concoction, presented the babes alive before them on the table; concluding with the Coilers Jigg.

Format:

Book

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Great Britain--18th century.

English poetry.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

8 pages ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1750?]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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English Short Title Catalog, T194440.

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